A Man Lay Dead
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A Man Lay Dead is a 1934 detective novel by Ngaio Marsh that introduces her gentleman inspector Roderick Alleyn in a classic country-house murder mystery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Man Lay Dead canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20543944 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Man Lay Dead Context triple: [Roderick Alleyn series, hasWork, A Man Lay Dead]
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A.
The Man Is Dead
"The Man Is Dead" is an EP by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels that helped establish their dark, dramatic sound and grow their early following.
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B.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
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C.
The Murder
"The Murder" is the iconic, shrieking string cue composed by Bernard Herrmann for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, most famously underscoring the film’s shower scene.
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D.
The Deadman
The Deadman is the iconic supernatural persona of WWE legend The Undertaker, characterized by his macabre, undead mortician gimmick and eerie, slow-paced dominance in the ring.
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E.
The Man Who Finally Died
The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Man Lay Dead Target entity description: A Man Lay Dead is a 1934 detective novel by Ngaio Marsh that introduces her gentleman inspector Roderick Alleyn in a classic country-house murder mystery.
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A.
The Man Is Dead
"The Man Is Dead" is an EP by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels that helped establish their dark, dramatic sound and grow their early following.
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B.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
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C.
The Murder
"The Murder" is the iconic, shrieking string cue composed by Bernard Herrmann for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, most famously underscoring the film’s shower scene.
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D.
The Deadman
The Deadman is the iconic supernatural persona of WWE legend The Undertaker, characterized by his macabre, undead mortician gimmick and eerie, slow-paced dominance in the ring.
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E.
The Man Who Finally Died
The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.